Univision Host Fired For Likening First Lady Obama To Cast Of ‘Planet Of The Apes’

Rodner Figueroa accepts the award for outstanding daytime talent in spanish for “El Gordo y la Flaca” at the 41st annual Daytime Emmy Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Sunday, June 22, 2014, in Beverly Hills,... Rodner Figueroa accepts the award for outstanding daytime talent in spanish for “El Gordo y la Flaca” at the 41st annual Daytime Emmy Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Sunday, June 22, 2014, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP) MORE LESS
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A Univision talk show host was fired after he likened Michelle Obama to someone from the cast of ‘Planet Of The Apes.’

Rodner Figueroa, a frequent contributor of “El Gordo Y la Flaca,” said in Spanish, “You know Michelle Obama looks like she is of the cast of “The Planet Of The Apes” as he pointed to a photo of Obama. Figueroa made the comment in a segment about makeup artist Paolo Ballesteros.

Figueroa was quickly fired in response, according to NBC News.

Watch the segment where Figueroa made the comment below:

Correction: This post originally said Figueroa is a co-host of El Gordo Y la Flaca. He is a frequent contributor.

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  1. Avatar for tomj tomj says:

    Adios, Univsion…Hola MundoFox!

  2. I’m so tired of seeing this gracious, beautiful woman trashed by odd nobodies.

  3. I was talking with my best friend and his girlfriend (who is African American) and I remarked that the only difference between Latinos and African Americans is that the European component of their ancestry tends to be from the British Isles wheras ours is Iberian. The rest (West African and Native American) is the same, in varying amounts. [And for those who would deny the African part for Mexicans, they should Read “La Poblacion Negra de Mexico,” by Gonzalo Aguirre Beltran].

    The girlfriend then replied, “How I wish that both groups could get along better.”

    Univision:

    Thanks for hiring this guy (evidently without much of an aptitude test). Your firing him is, qualitatively, the same as a clever attorney slandering someone in court, while the judge says, “Disregard that last part”

    Meaning…on deaf ears.

    You’re helping us all out big time.

  4. I effing give up.

  5. Excellent choice for host of new Fox News program: “Fox and Racist Friends”

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